In
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 04/02/2006
at 08:50 PM, Timothy Sipples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Receiving a fair price on any product requires a *credible* market
>alternative in *your* particular situation. Things that bring
>credibility to the discussion:
>- a project actually underway to switch from one vendor to
>another
I would consider it a strategic error to stick with a vendor that has
forced you to that extreme. If the project is already underway then,
IMHO, you are better of proceeding to switch.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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